The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-07-07

was one Of the mares stinted to Jack
son. It was done to help old John
Woodruff. If Surry could not pro-
duce speed to the great rae horse Sir
Henry, nothing could be expected OF
the brick-maker's 'plebian horse, An
drew Jackson. Was he plebian :?
The Kanuck mare Surry was of the
same. Arabian blood possessed by
Jackson, and the foal, Henry Clay,
proved as positive in his blood as was
his sire Jackson's sons from such kim
dred1 blood, kept entire. Keep in
mind that the dam of Henry Clay was
the same French Arabian Kanuck
blood that made Pilot, and Pilot made
Maude S. and Jay-Eye-See. Please
keep in mind, also, that in Henry Clay
there was no Bellfounder blood, nc
Abdallah blood, no Hambletonian
blood, no May Day blood and no Trus-
tee blood, He was just the plain
Arabian blood, diluted through An
drew Jackson and Messenger, united
with it's affinity Arabian through the
French Kanuck mare Surry. Andrew
trotted, Surry trotted and Henry Clay
trotted-each a natural or instructive
blood inheritance. Henry Clay gets
Cassius M. Clay from a cold blooded
mongrel mare; but Cassius M. Clay
trots. Cassius gets Neaves' Clay
from better bred dams, and Neaves'
Clay is better than his sire. Now for
the test of blood values. Neaves' Clay
covers a Bellfounder mare, by same
imp. Bellfounder that got the dam of
Rysdyk's Hambletonian by Abdallah
blood did not make Rysdyk's Handle
tonian trot nor did the daughter of
imp. Bellfounder make her son to Old
Abdallah trot; so please explain to me
how and why Rysdyk's son of Abdal-
lab, which he called Hambletonian,
should be credited with any value.
Neaves' Clay covered, as we know a
daughter of imp Bellfounder, and the
colt, Harry Clay, trotfed. Now
Harry Clay has his record below $50
in a race. l have seen Hiram. Wood
ruff drive him to a skeleton wagon,
on the old Fashion Track in 2.25, and
so have other men who are still living.
Harry Clay was called a gutter. If
he was so, was it not the Bellfounder
blood that failed to help Abdallah
make a trotter of their son Rysdyk's
Hambletonian? Harry Clay became
the property Of Hon. Erastus Corning,
who knew what Clay::blood was; and he
has lived to see hat same Harry Clay
carry all kinds Of dunghill blood to
the front in the fastest of time, even
Abdallah and Bellfounder, which Trus-
tee and May Day could not do. Harry
Clay was a trotter himself, and his
daughter made the get of the variest
dunghills trot; also himself got trotters
from mares that could not trot or
produce trot to any other blood.
What was the cause? Was it the
Arabian leaven? Even from Hamble-
tonian mares he got trotters, as illus
trated in his great son Shawmut, now
standing, I understand, at Midway,
KY, in which State his own cousin in
blood, the great Sultan, is also owned.
Certainly the wisdom Of Kentucky is
very great in securing two such Clay
stations since the death of George
Wilkes, whose dam was by Henry
Clay, the cause of all Clay blood.
Shawmut is a son of Harry Clay, by
Neaves' Clay, and is out of a sister to
the great Volunteer. Sultan is a
grandson of Clay Pilot, by. Neaves'
Clay, and were l a breeder in Ken
lucky, owning a due to Sultan I
should feel it duty to myself and the
breeding interests of my State to turn
such mare, when she foaled to Sultan,
to his cousin Shawmut, that an imme-
date test might be made of the two
horses, not from different mares, but
the same Identical mare. I have my
opinions as to results, but will sup
press them, and tell of a comparative
blood influence.
Col Henry Peterson, of Lodi, Seneca
county, N. Y. bred a Champion Nor
gan mare to the stallion Lodi, by
Andy johnson, by Henry Clay. She.
foaled a chestnut sorrel FLY; it was a
~trotter born. When 2 years old, the
great little horse Sphinx, by Andy
johnson, was making a weekly stand
at Col. Paterson's barn Che is a farmer).
1 urged him to stand the Lodi FLY to
her uncle Sphinx. The Colonel hesita-
ted, but at last gratifed what he
termed my whim. She proved to the